Packaged acidic beverage
AssigneeKirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMihoko SUZUKI, Yuko YOTSUMOTO, Makiko NAKAJIMA, Kiichi YOKOYAMA
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a packaged acidic beverage according to the present invention such that a “sour taste” specific to an acidic beverage containing GABA in a prescribed concentration is suppressed, a production method therefor, and others. Provided is a packaged acidic beverage comprising γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at 100 mg/L or more and 500 million cells/L or more (e.g., 20 billion cells/L or more) of dead bacterial cells of one or more types of lactic acid bacteria and/or bacteria in the present invention 1 and having a pH of 4.6 or less.
Claims12
1-10. (canceled)
A packaged acidic beverage comprising γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at 100 mg/L or more and 500 million cells/L or more of dead bacterial cells of one or more types of lactic acid bacteria and having a pH of 4.6 or less.
A method for producing a packaged acidic beverage containing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at 100 mg/L or more and having a pH of 4.6 or less, the method comprising including, in the beverage, 500 million cells/L or more of dead bacterial cells of one or more types of lactic acid bacteria in the production of the packaged acidic beverage.
A method of suppressing a specific sour taste during drinking of a packaged acidic beverage containing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at 100 mg/L or more and having a pH of 4.6 or less, the method comprising including, in the beverage, 500 million cells/L or more of dead bacterial cells of one or more types of lactic acid bacteria in the production of the packaged acidic beverage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.